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Alwyn H. Gentry Forest Transect Dataset

Over 22 years, Alwyn H. Gentry collected data from 226 sites on six continents. Gentry and his collaborators collected all plants with stem diameters equal to or exceeding 2.5 cm diameter at breast height (dbh) along ten...

AmphibiaWeb

This web site hosts data on amphibian species including: decline, conservation, natural history, and taxonomy.

AnAge: The Animal Ageing & Longevity Database

This dataset has compiled life history parameters, with a focus on senesence, for a wide variety of taxa, mostly animals, but also including a few plants and fungi.

Andrews LTER

This web site hosts data collected at the Andrews Long Term Eological Research Station in the western Casade Range of Oregon.

Animal Movement (Movebank)

This web site stores global data to track the movement of animals.

Arctic LTER

This web site hosts data collected at the Arctic Long Term Ecological Research Station at the Toolik Field Station in Alaska.

Avian body size and life history

This dataset compares avian body sizes with mating characteristics for 3769 species.

Avian Knowledge Network

This web site hosts time series data sets from hundreds of independent projects aiming to understand the patterns and dynamics of bird populations across the western hemisphere. In particular, eBird connects remost-sensed...

Baltimore Ecosystem Study

This web site hosts data from research in metropolitan Baltimore as a part of the Long Term Ecological Research Network.

Barnacle, fucoid, and mussel recruitment

This data set describes differences in macroalgal stands and mussel beds between ice scour disturbances in sheltered intertidal shores between 1997-2007.

Biodiversity Effects on Ecosystems, Communities, and Populations

This metadataset describes the effects of biodiversity on response variables of experimental studies published between 1974-2004.

Biodiversity Effects on Species Richness

This dataset summarized the effect of experimentally reducing species richess has on abundance or biomass of the focal group, abundance or biomass of the focal group's primary resource, and/or the depletion of resources...

Biomass Allocation and Growth Data of Seeded Plants

This data set compiles information regarding the biomass of leaf, stem, and root biomass for plants.

Body Mass of Late Quarternary Mammals

This dataset compiles body mass of all known mammals across geographic and  taxonomic space and evolutionary time.

Body Size of Consumers

This dataset contains over 16,000 records or a cosumer body size and its resources.

Bonanza Creek LTER

This web site hosts data gathered at the Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research Station in the interior of Alaska.

Breeding Bird Census

Spot-mapping data for birds combined with information on the local vegetation. This includes information on the number and position of singing males and breeding pairs, as well as information on the number of nests and...

Breeding Bird Survey of North America

The North American Breeding Bird Survey (1966-present) consists of data on the diversity and abundance of summer bird assemblages at approximately 5000 sites across the continental U.S. and Canada. Sampling began in 1966...

California Current Ecosystem LTER

This web site hosts data collected at the California Current coastal pelagic ecosysten Long Term Ecological Research Station.

California Estuary Metaweb

This dataset depicts food webs from three North American Pacific Coast Estuaries and includes details regarding parastic characters, body-size, biomass, and ontogeny.